The Supreme Court appears unlikely to significantly alter immunity for digital platforms. How could Congress go about constructing a balanced knowledge liability system?
As government policy moves toward more binding rules for cybersecurity, how should they be enforced? Self-assessment and self-certification are not likely to suffice.
On December 31, 2023, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will expire unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Section 702 authorizes the U.S. government, in order to obtain foreign intelligence information, to target foreigners who are reasonably believed to be outside of the U.S. and collect their communications inside the U.S. without a warrant—even when such surveillance may involve the incidental collection of communications of U.S. persons.
The third annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference (CLPSC) will take place at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University on September 29-30, 2023.
A flood of interviews and writing by former Jan. 6 investigators reveals key points about what the committee’s report does and doesn’t contain.
The update to the 2012 directive provides clarity and establishes transparent governance and policy, rather than making substantial changes.
By many accounts, the United States is living through a new era of competition—not just between major powers and strategic rivals, but between ideologies. Around the world, many authoritarian governments seem to be on the rise, even as many liberal democracies are facing a crisis of confidence, including, by some accounts, here in the United States.
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Following a monthslong investigation, the former president’s legal team has submitted a motion to suppress the Georgia special purpose grand jury’s final report.
Jordan, Comer, and Steil described the potential indictment of the former president as an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”
Two years into President Biden’s term—and 20 years since the mission to topple Saddam Hussein began—there’s no driver behind the wheel of the United States’s Iraq policy.
The lesser known story of a silent counter-revolution in 1989 in Iran that led to the creation of Iran’s constitution today—and why this constitution is unconstitutional.
Twenty years ago today, the United States invaded the nation of Iraq, intent on removing the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein and installing a stable democratic government. What followed instead was two decades of political instability and horrible sectarian violence that has yielded a modern Iraqi state that remains plagued with corruption and other problems, and is increasingly under immense pressure from the nearby regime in Iran.
Credible estimates show that the conflict has been Russia's most deadly since World War II.
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The warrants for the arrest of Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova were for alleged war crimes relating to the deportation of children during the War in Ukraine.
The deterioration of human rights in Tunisia long precedes the country’s current instability and democratic backsliding.
A review of David Allen, “Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century” (Harvard University Press, 2023).
Artificial Intelligence is advancing at what seems like an exponential rate, with every month—sometimes every week—bringing news of a new, game-changing discovery. But just as the progress in AI is accelerating, so is the pessimism about it, with many scholars, commentators, and technologists themselves raising the alarm about AI's potential harms to equality, privacy, and security.
How will GPT4 change the world? What implications does it have for policy, economics, and society? How will US-China 'racing dynamics' play out and what are the implications for AI safety? To discuss, I've brought together the AI Justice League: Zvi of 'Don't Worry About the Vase', Nathan Labenz of Waymark, and Matthew Mittelsteadt of Mercatus.
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